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...this. Just after 7 a.m. on the last Friday of March, a file called "Passcodes 3-26-99" appeared on alt.sex. On the surface, it seemed to be nothing more than a list of passwords for porn sites. But within hours, alarm bells began to ring. An automatic virus detector spotted Melissa, noting that she entered via e-mail from skyroket@aol.com The FBI enlisted America Online techies and scrambled their cybersabotage squads. Meanwhile, patrons of alt.comp.virus a newsgroup where virus writers and hunters hang out, morphed into virtual Baker Street irregulars...
...story we're telling. Truly gifted dissemblers, however, reveal very little of this, lying so easily and skillfully that even the most well-trained eye wouldn't notice a thing. If cops and card players can be fooled, though, it's now possible that another type of sophisticated lie detector can't: the computer...
...muscle actions in the Ekman catalogue. They will then program the computer to recognize the various combinations of these movements, pouring live video images of human volunteers directly into the machine's brain. Eventually, the research at Sejnowski's and other labs could lead to a working lie detector, one that would be far more reliable and much less intrusive than existing polygraphs, which measure such reactions as heartbeat and sweating that clever subjects can control. Says Bartlett: "It would spot in an instant any facial movement that indicated a conflicting emotion, like a beginning of a scowl quickly covered...
...Scottish cardiologist James Mackenzie invents the polygraph machine, better known as the lie detector...
...DETECTING PC? Even when a liar wags his finger, his voice will betray him. That's the premise behind Fortress, a $30 lie-detector program you can download from www.digitalrobotics.com to your PC and use to test your friends and family (with their consent, of course) or sound bites pulled off the Net, TV or radio. It analyzes recordings in any language. Beeps during playback signal an effort to deceive...